National Football Foundation

Matt Rader starred at three different positions for Pennsbury High School (Pa.): quarterback, linebacker and punter. For each position, he earned Suburban One Power 10 All-League honors. Rader also excelled in the classroom, earning the top spot in his graduating class of 733 with a 4.65 GPA. He was also named league player of the year in baseball and earned All-Star honors in basketball. He was the only student in school history to compete at the varsity level in all three sports. A team captain for the football team, Rader was named Player of the Year by the Philadelphia Eagles Alumni Association, the Maxwell Football Club, the Trenton Times and the Trentonian. He was selected first team all-state at linebacker, and he was the Bucks County Courier Times 1993 Golden Football Team Player of the Year.

Rader attended Duke University for two years, starting four games in the 1996 season and completing 85 passes for 905 yards and five touchdowns. He then transferred to the University of Pennsylvania in order to be closer to home, and he started at quarterback for the 1997 and 1998 Quakers teams. Rader completed 336-of-568 passes for 3,858 yards and 20 touchdowns in two seasons. He was named the 1998 Penn Offensive Player of the Year, and he was named Second Team All-Ivy League. Rader’s 3,858 yards rank sixth all-time among Penn quarterbacks.

He graduated from Penn with a Bachelor of Science in finance, and he has been a portfolio manager for Nomura since 2012.